HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH."
" No. 9 [7] . Pray let the beginning stand as in the Bible, viz. : —
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��and if the end ' and thus harm thee ' can be spared, and it can finish with the words ' against a stone,' I should like it better.
" No. 10 [between 7 and 8] , in the middle I propose again to alter the notes in order to keep the Bible version : —
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��tain thee, and thou shall want nothing, nor she and her house, x\xio\ig'b,SK.
"No. II* [8]. Again the same (bar 16, &c.) :—
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��• Mendelssohn K'^eatly altered the "Widow" scene before the oratorio was published.
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